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AT the invitation of the British Ecological Society, members of the forestry associations of Great Britain met on July 2 to discuss with the Society problems arising from a recent article by Sir Roy Robinson in Forestry. Prof. A. G. Tansley, opening the session, argued that the hypotheses of the “silvi-cultural stream” and of “accelerated succession” are based on ecological theories of succession, mixed plantings of pioneers and successors comparing with natural “telescoped” succession. He indicated the mutual benefits of still closer co-operation between foresters and ecologists, especially in investigations of the effects of pioneers on successors and of the autecology of exotic conifers. He also pleaded for due consideration by the Forestry Commission of the needs of nature conservation, particularly in view of the envisaged expansion of the Commission's programme after the War.
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HARVEY, L. ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN FORESTRY PRACTICE. Nature 152, 196 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152196a0
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